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look, george w. bush in 2008 and 2004 had low points in his campaign. there were times where he was not faring as well in the polls as he ultimately would. what happened then though is that you had conservatives who held their tongue, and why did that happen? because george w. bush had a measure of goodwill with the conservative base of the party that mitt romney does not have. and that's the problem romney has right now. he comes out labor day a couple bad polls, some bad buys, and you have conservatives spouting off because they don't have a relationship, they don't have trust with romney in the way that they did with george w. bush back in 2000 and 2004. >> and they were still supporting his war by then. it was only a year later. anyway, the new cnn poll makes this point. it has president obama leading mitt romney by six points along likely voters but the interesting numbers show up when pollsters asked voters whether the vote was for the candidate or simply against the other. these are great numbers. among obama supporters, 74% say their vote is mor
look, george w. bush in 2008 and 2004 had low points in his campaign. there were times where he was not faring as well in the polls as he ultimately would. what happened then though is that you had conservatives who held their tongue, and why did that happen? because george w. bush had a measure of goodwill with the conservative base of the party that mitt romney does not have. and that's the problem romney has right now. he comes out labor day a couple bad polls, some bad buys, and you have...
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first that awkward moment in the third and final debate between george w. bush and al gore. let's watch this moment. >> it's not only what your philosophy and what's your position on issues. but can you get things done. and i believe i can. >> well, in 1992 in a debate conducted in a town hall format, president george bush, senior bush, was seen checking his watch, that showed impatience with the whole debate, fair or not. in 2008 john mccain betrayed his frustration when he referred to barack obama as "that one." let's listen. >> your bill on the floor of the senate, loaded down with goodies, billions for the oil companies and it was sponsored by busch and cheney. you know who voted for it? might never know. that one. you know who voted against it? me. >> where did you come up with that phrase, that one? what will be the clues tonight to tell us in real time who's winning. ste steve kornacki, co-host of "the cycle." you start with your biggest clue. you've said already, i've seen on my screen, who's winning the definition, meaning who's defining the debate in their terms. h
first that awkward moment in the third and final debate between george w. bush and al gore. let's watch this moment. >> it's not only what your philosophy and what's your position on issues. but can you get things done. and i believe i can. >> well, in 1992 in a debate conducted in a town hall format, president george bush, senior bush, was seen checking his watch, that showed impatience with the whole debate, fair or not. in 2008 john mccain betrayed his frustration when he...
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joining us right now is former george w. bush and mccain strategist. you've worked on the republican side over the years and i want to ask you -- i was stunned. first of all, it looked like the only group in that poll this sunday that is with romney are people over 65. if the only people in this country that could vote were under 65 he'd get swamped. you're laughing but it's an amazing situation to be in, to only own the old people. your thoughts and is that one reason why they're advertising to try to get some demos as we call them in this business? >> at least i have a reliable demographic, i can count on those folks to come out anyway. chris, i just remember in 2000 about this same time we called that month black september because we came out of that convention pretty strong and then gore had a really good convention, we were down suddenly three points. suddenly all the guns turned at us. everybody wanted me fired because the ads were terrible. >> okay. your guy, w., pulled it out in the debates. of course that's why you won. that isn't complicated.
joining us right now is former george w. bush and mccain strategist. you've worked on the republican side over the years and i want to ask you -- i was stunned. first of all, it looked like the only group in that poll this sunday that is with romney are people over 65. if the only people in this country that could vote were under 65 he'd get swamped. you're laughing but it's an amazing situation to be in, to only own the old people. your thoughts and is that one reason why they're advertising...
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second thing, at least george w. bush, not to praise him too highly, did believe in compassionate conservativism, he did get prescription people for -- drugs for people who needed them, those that retired, a group that romney seems to be mocking as part of his 47% and he did do that great work against aids in africa. is compassionate conservative as a phrase dead? >> it did seem to be at that fund-raiser in florida. it seemed to me, early on, and i've covered supply-siders and their theories from the beginning, they argued back in the day, that ronald reagan days, that supply-side economics would lift people out of poverty. that it was good for all of america. i'm willing to grant they believed it when they said it. it wasn't a dodge to them, or at least to all of them or even most of them. what was so interesting about and compelling about the romney video, is that he makes no pretense to claim that tax cuts can hurt poor people. he says we can't sell it to them. and beyond that, he seems to think that it's irreleva
second thing, at least george w. bush, not to praise him too highly, did believe in compassionate conservativism, he did get prescription people for -- drugs for people who needed them, those that retired, a group that romney seems to be mocking as part of his 47% and he did do that great work against aids in africa. is compassionate conservative as a phrase dead? >> it did seem to be at that fund-raiser in florida. it seemed to me, early on, and i've covered supply-siders and their...
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he got a ged, got a medical degree, and went on to become surgeon general in george w. bush's administration. here is a part of his story in a campaign ad. let's watch. >> from the jungles of vietnam to life-saving rescues at home, rich carmona has always answered the call. in the senate he'll support our veterans because he's lived it. >> now, richard carmona has put the republican held arizona senate seat in play. democrats dearly want to hold on to the majority in the senate and flipping the seat held by jon kyl would make it even harder for republicans to stop them. it would be a powerful symbol of the shift politics in western states. joining me now is richard carmona. it's on honor to have you on the show, sir. how do you handle -- how do you unify your state along ethnic lines between what we call anglos and latinos? how do you make the state feel whole? >> well, it's whole and home for me, chris, because i have been here over a quarter century. as you know, working in health care, working along the border, working as a police officer, working as a professor at t
he got a ged, got a medical degree, and went on to become surgeon general in george w. bush's administration. here is a part of his story in a campaign ad. let's watch. >> from the jungles of vietnam to life-saving rescues at home, rich carmona has always answered the call. in the senate he'll support our veterans because he's lived it. >> now, richard carmona has put the republican held arizona senate seat in play. democrats dearly want to hold on to the majority in the senate and...
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. >> here's david letterman with what happened when george bush endorsed romney as the elevator doors were closing. >> we have a simulation, we don't have actual footage, so we put together a simulation of what george w. bush must have looked like endorsing mitt romney from the elevator. here it is. i hope you enjoy it. >> i strongly stand with mitt romney -- >> that was his tie going up the elevator. anyway, all of a sudden you see president obama a voids mentioning mitt romney when he names the policies, quote, some people running for certain offices should not be named. vice president biden was on a campaign in ohio and he wasn't so coy. >> here's the crooks of governor romney's argument. romney's partners, key men, investors, and eight years later the company was bankrupt. romney's investors walked away with $12 million. the president did not take governor romney's advice. governor romney seems to want it both ways. romney. romney. romney. he said, quote, i'll take a lot of credit for the fact that the industry's come back. whoa. by the way, i'll take a lot of credit for man havin
. >> here's david letterman with what happened when george bush endorsed romney as the elevator doors were closing. >> we have a simulation, we don't have actual footage, so we put together a simulation of what george w. bush must have looked like endorsing mitt romney from the elevator. here it is. i hope you enjoy it. >> i strongly stand with mitt romney -- >> that was his tie going up the elevator. anyway, all of a sudden you see president obama a voids mentioning...
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here's approval for george w. bush. again, no straight lines exactly. there's some evidence it's more conservative opinions on race. and disapproval of democratic presidents. but it's not a huge gap until you get to obama. that, that is a huge gap. and it doesn't look like any other graph for any other president. they found something else worth remarking on. "president obama continued to be evaluated, not just as an african-american but as someone who is distinctly other." >> i love being in this home in this place where ann and i were raised where both of us were born. anne was born at henry ford hospital i was born at harper hospital. no one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know this is the place, that we were born and raised. >> now, i want to stop here for a moment. this is tough to talk about. this is dangerous, frankly, to talk about. and i'm honestly a bit nervous to be on national television talking about it at all. race is a hard subject, particularly when it intersects with politics and needs to be handled with care. i want to sa
here's approval for george w. bush. again, no straight lines exactly. there's some evidence it's more conservative opinions on race. and disapproval of democratic presidents. but it's not a huge gap until you get to obama. that, that is a huge gap. and it doesn't look like any other graph for any other president. they found something else worth remarking on. "president obama continued to be evaluated, not just as an african-american but as someone who is distinctly other." >> i...
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. >> i strongly recommend to romney that he campaign everywhere with george w. bush. if you look at all the data, people still blame by a margin of two to one the economic problems in this country on bush. so i think -- and the other thing, by the way, it would open up for the president is the very clear case that if you didn't like the bush/cheney years, you wouldn't like the romney years because he has the same policies and the same advisers. >> but the difference is that the obama years haven't improved that much now, have they? >> the obama years are pretty -- we didn't go into a great depression -- >> this is what voters are deciding. it was worse under w. but it's not good enough better -- you didn't clean up the bush mess welloff. thank you. that's the argument. you would think the obama campaign would want to start looking forward toward the vp debate this week and the two remaining presidential debates. today the obama camp released this ad going back to romney's line about big bird. this i think is mickey mouse but let's take a look. >> bernie madoff, ken la
. >> i strongly recommend to romney that he campaign everywhere with george w. bush. if you look at all the data, people still blame by a margin of two to one the economic problems in this country on bush. so i think -- and the other thing, by the way, it would open up for the president is the very clear case that if you didn't like the bush/cheney years, you wouldn't like the romney years because he has the same policies and the same advisers. >> but the difference is that the...
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president george w. bush wanted to end that which set off a panic and led to romney and kennedy going to the bush administration and cutting a deal with them. massachusetts could keep the money if they put it toward a universal health care plan. that's how it got started. romney and kennedy were trying to keep this federal money. they wanted that money. then the state did two other things. they first covered everyone they could cover in their medicaid problem so they could get the most possible match from the federal government. right now federal medicaid from the federal government -- that is an incredible deal for people in massachusetts. they're getting subsidized by the rest of the country. and then the third way romney paid for it is massachusetts had long before romney was governor, imposed a tax in order to reimburse hospitals for the care they provided to the uninsured. romney took that tax and put it towards his law. so that's two pots of federal money sand a tax. so how much of romney's proposa
president george w. bush wanted to end that which set off a panic and led to romney and kennedy going to the bush administration and cutting a deal with them. massachusetts could keep the money if they put it toward a universal health care plan. that's how it got started. romney and kennedy were trying to keep this federal money. they wanted that money. then the state did two other things. they first covered everyone they could cover in their medicaid problem so they could get the most possible...
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w. one of the most popular lines repeated over and over at the convention down in tampa was the fabrication of what president obama said making it seem like the president was implying to business owners didn't deserve credit for building their businesses. let's watch it. >> the president said if you've got a business, you didn't build that. >> he can't fix the economy because he doesn't know how it was built. >> it sure doesn't help to hear from your president that government gets the credit. what they deserve to hear is the truth. yes, you did build that. >> we build planes. we build cars. >> do build it, right? >> no government there to hold your hand. >> mitt romney was not handed success. he built it. >> if a guy walked into a bar and heard that story and he said, well, if you've got a business, you didn't build that. well, you know what we'd do with him, don't you? we'd throw him out. >> i still don't get that one. i don't get it. any way, over the top, under the table, whatever. ou
w. one of the most popular lines repeated over and over at the convention down in tampa was the fabrication of what president obama said making it seem like the president was implying to business owners didn't deserve credit for building their businesses. let's watch it. >> the president said if you've got a business, you didn't build that. >> he can't fix the economy because he doesn't know how it was built. >> it sure doesn't help to hear from your president that government...
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i have yet to meet anybody in the republican establishment that worked for george w. bush -- >> as we await the sequel, does that comport with your reporting? is that what you're hearing from them? >> when the host of a show says something, you have two choices, you can say that's exactly right, or you can follow the advice of if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all. i think there is pessimism in so the participants of the establishment. they signed one of the best strategist on the republican strategy. i think there are plenty of republican that's are cautiously optimistic and believe romney can win this. >> sam, what's your vibe on this issue of if these will be by gones when we get to the fall. >> the economy is going in a positive direction, but there are worries the economy will slow down over the summer. mitt romney has always been a more comfortable candidate in a general election show down as opposed to a primary election where he has to convince people he is conservative enough. i don't think the pessimism is warranted, and keep in mind, the
i have yet to meet anybody in the republican establishment that worked for george w. bush -- >> as we await the sequel, does that comport with your reporting? is that what you're hearing from them? >> when the host of a show says something, you have two choices, you can say that's exactly right, or you can follow the advice of if you can't say something nice don't say anything at all. i think there is pessimism in so the participants of the establishment. they signed one of the best...
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now it turns out that it closed on george w. bush's watch. now, i don't know how you can say that's just how he sees pit. >> by the way, not only did it close on george bush's watch, paul ryan knew that. in fact, it was on a list to be closed in june of 2008 before president obama even visited there. and then it closed, in fact, before president obama took office. hold on a second. >> let's get the facts -- >> that's what we're doing here. >> you said the facts were a matter of interpretation. you have to run your campaign based on the facts as you believe them. if there's a date of a plant closure and announcement and it's in your state, the expectation is that you would be aware of it. particularly after -- >> here are the facts. barack obama came to janesville. that's a fact. he said that his economic policies would reopen that plant -- >> reopen? >> that's what he said. and then the third fact is the plant still closed. the economic policies of the president have not worked. >> i never heard reopen. i thought he said he would save it. >>
now it turns out that it closed on george w. bush's watch. now, i don't know how you can say that's just how he sees pit. >> by the way, not only did it close on george bush's watch, paul ryan knew that. in fact, it was on a list to be closed in june of 2008 before president obama even visited there. and then it closed, in fact, before president obama took office. hold on a second. >> let's get the facts -- >> that's what we're doing here. >> you said the facts were a...
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it's worse than what george w. bush did when he cut -- when he had two deep tax cuts, started two wars, and then expanded medicare. that's why we're in the situation we're in. but what romney is trying to do is double down. he's promising even more tax cuts and we're going to pay less. it's incredible what he thinks -- how gullible he must think we are. >> i don't know why the democrats have such a problem. you're better off than you were four years ago? are you better that you have than you were under bush? think it through. wars, financial crisis like we've never had since the great depression. a stock market dropping down to nothing. an unemployment rate spiking up to double digits. why is it such a complicated question? go back to this policy. >> go back to december 2008 when we were losing 850,000 jobs a month. i mean, making -- creating 96,000 jobs is not enough, but it's certainly better -- >> let's -- i want to get to him first because you will be surprised what he says. here is conservative columnist doing
it's worse than what george w. bush did when he cut -- when he had two deep tax cuts, started two wars, and then expanded medicare. that's why we're in the situation we're in. but what romney is trying to do is double down. he's promising even more tax cuts and we're going to pay less. it's incredible what he thinks -- how gullible he must think we are. >> i don't know why the democrats have such a problem. you're better off than you were four years ago? are you better that you have than...
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w. 18 points. that's huge. and that's something that gives the democrats and the obama campaign confidence and something they're going to try to build on and something that comments like the republican chairman just may call -- >> i have that to which you refer. look at the incredible numbers from a new usa today gallup poll asked about the race, there was a big gender gap. obama and mitt romney in a virtual tie, but women support obama by an 18-point lead. what specifically do you think lies behind that data? >> i think we find men and women have different priorities. we asked men what their top priority was. they ranked debt and deficit there. women ranked health care. women have a different view of the economy. women are very concerned about the economy, to be sure, but it's women often dealing with health care, putting gas in the car, buying food at the grocery store, sending their kids off to college and affording tuition. we also found the debate over contraception is not the sole
w. 18 points. that's huge. and that's something that gives the democrats and the obama campaign confidence and something they're going to try to build on and something that comments like the republican chairman just may call -- >> i have that to which you refer. look at the incredible numbers from a new usa today gallup poll asked about the race, there was a big gender gap. obama and mitt romney in a virtual tie, but women support obama by an 18-point lead. what specifically do you think...
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w. get the hottest toys on your list today, like lefrog leappad2 and hot wheels wall tracks... then put it on layaway so you have more time to pay. walmart. >>> war talk. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews at lynn university in boca raton, florida, sight of the third and final presidential debate. let me start tonight with this. romney, wash. when i hear mitt romney speak about foreign policy, it's always toughness. when i hear bewe got to get tough, i hear war. surrounded as he is by the same people who were w's advisers, i feel his presence even stronger. war. does america want a war? in recent years we have had wars going on in iraq and afghanistan. do we now want another one with a far more powerful, more modern islamic country? the implication for romney's tough talk in iran is we can commit an act of out and out war against that country without using the ward wor. we attack their nuclear sites, they say urngcle, and that's the end of it. that's where pe
w. get the hottest toys on your list today, like lefrog leappad2 and hot wheels wall tracks... then put it on layaway so you have more time to pay. walmart. >>> war talk. let's play "hardball." ♪ >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews at lynn university in boca raton, florida, sight of the third and final presidential debate. let me start tonight with this. romney, wash. when i hear mitt romney speak about foreign policy, it's always toughness. when i hear bewe got...
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w. we begin with president obama's opposition and those who support it. in the petition sing gling out of mitt romney, am i to conclude that the white house has concluded he is the nominee? >> i can tell you that we watch what you guys report and read what your colleagues report, and it certainly seems like he could well be, but the point the president was making was that all of the republican presidential contenders, those who would hold this office come 2013, have endorsed and support the ryan republican budget. so regardless of who emerges as the republican nominee, this is not -- the ryan republican budget and the sort of radical division is represents, as the president said, is not something that only a faction of the republican party reports, it's not something that, you know, the mainstream of the republican party rejects, it is the budget proposal. the case the president was making was there are two competing visions of america's future that are very stark and easily contrasted.
w. we begin with president obama's opposition and those who support it. in the petition sing gling out of mitt romney, am i to conclude that the white house has concluded he is the nominee? >> i can tell you that we watch what you guys report and read what your colleagues report, and it certainly seems like he could well be, but the point the president was making was that all of the republican presidential contenders, those who would hold this office come 2013, have endorsed and support...
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. >> well, chris, i think they decided down down in tampa that for every minute george bush was mentioned, they were going to drop that percentage in the polls. as you mentioned earlier, americans understand by and large, 60 to 70% of them, that barack obama inherited a serious set of problems from george w. bush. two wars that have cost us upwards of 2, $3 trillion. an economy that was crashed. and a gigantic debt that he had actually doubled while in office. this is what the president had to cope with at a time of terrible stress for the country. and i think people know that. they remember that and republicans don't want to remind them. >> boept both parties want to remind us of bill clinton, but neither wants to remind us of w. democrats are giving him a break. your thoughts. >> president bush has exited the political stage. he said once i'm out of politics, that's it. the democrats can run around and say, oh, they're tried to hide bush and he's trying stay off the scene, but that was the president's decision. the fact of the matter, chris, is that poor barack obama, oh, obama inherite
. >> well, chris, i think they decided down down in tampa that for every minute george bush was mentioned, they were going to drop that percentage in the polls. as you mentioned earlier, americans understand by and large, 60 to 70% of them, that barack obama inherited a serious set of problems from george w. bush. two wars that have cost us upwards of 2, $3 trillion. an economy that was crashed. and a gigantic debt that he had actually doubled while in office. this is what the president...
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>> well, as i said, chris, you know, we knew that george w. bush had it. we'd seen a lot of signs of it throughout the campaign. we saw a lot of muscular policy speeches early on in the campaign, and i'm surprised that there hasn't been more specificity, more policies, something that shows what the broader vision is. i mean, 50 days is not a lot of time left to do that. >> but, mark, you're a wordsmith and you have given me 100 words and all i want is one, yes or no. does he have an inner core of personality and compassion that the american people will find attractive but haven't seen yet? >> chris, i have no idea. i have no idea. i don't work for romney and i haven't seen it yet. >> okay. >> i haven't seen it -- >> i love the answer now. steve, let me go to this whole question. with the campaign in mid-september, the weather has changed, we're in the fall, this is when we have general elections now. the question i have, can you -- romney doesn't fire people, he says he likes to fire people, he doesn't fire campaign people. how does he turn things around t
>> well, as i said, chris, you know, we knew that george w. bush had it. we'd seen a lot of signs of it throughout the campaign. we saw a lot of muscular policy speeches early on in the campaign, and i'm surprised that there hasn't been more specificity, more policies, something that shows what the broader vision is. i mean, 50 days is not a lot of time left to do that. >> but, mark, you're a wordsmith and you have given me 100 words and all i want is one, yes or no. does he have an...
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george w. bush in '04 won them by eight. obama just wants to narrow that gap or not lose them badly. he's not going to win the election there but could lose it. he wants to keep it narrow among seniors. they think this is a way do that. >> erin, my dad was conservative republican. but the one thing he liked was medicare. you know. he worked all his life and said finally i get something for all the money i paid into the government. medicare doesn't -- really popular among people over 65. they really like it. now to come along and threaten to cut it or turn it into a voucher program could be really political suicide for the republicans. do you sense biden is out there like advertising what's to come of a preview of a movie coming? >> absolutely. president obama is going to florida actually on thursday and friday for a couple of events and i expect that he will talk about it then. as chris mentioned, this is an important thing with senior citizens and, as you mentioned as well, in florida and i think that's the reason why paul
george w. bush in '04 won them by eight. obama just wants to narrow that gap or not lose them badly. he's not going to win the election there but could lose it. he wants to keep it narrow among seniors. they think this is a way do that. >> erin, my dad was conservative republican. but the one thing he liked was medicare. you know. he worked all his life and said finally i get something for all the money i paid into the government. medicare doesn't -- really popular among people over 65....
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w. bush to something better. romney came out best in the first debate because he denied the path he has chosen, denied the big tax cut from 35% down to 28% for people at the top bracket. the all-out elimination of the estate tax, the big-time cut in the corporate rate. he denied his plan to eliminate medicare, denied he would kill coverage for those with pre-existing conditions. he got away without bothering to deny his plan to let the automobile industry to go bankrupt and to dump 40 million people to wait in the emergency room. let's look at some of the latest polling in the wake of wednesday's debate. this afternoon pew released a poll that showed a dramatic shift toward romney. this poll covers the four days since the debate, and it has romney pulling even with president obama among registered voters, 46% even. four weeks ago pew had obama up by nine among registered voters, so this has been a huge shift in the pew poll. the move in the pew poll towards romney is greater among likely
w. bush to something better. romney came out best in the first debate because he denied the path he has chosen, denied the big tax cut from 35% down to 28% for people at the top bracket. the all-out elimination of the estate tax, the big-time cut in the corporate rate. he denied his plan to eliminate medicare, denied he would kill coverage for those with pre-existing conditions. he got away without bothering to deny his plan to let the automobile industry to go bankrupt and to dump 40 million...
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w. >>> now to the gender gap. let's play some "hardball." >>> good morning, i'm michael smirconish sitting in for chris matthews. the gender gap is a war on women and mitt romney will lose the election if he can't close a growing gender gap. so head of the rnc who said today the gender gap exists only in media fiction and then he worked in caterpillars into the quote. this certainly didn't help with women. the dnc has only been too eager to take advantage. mitt, it happens. how did it come to this? the most conservative republican party now dominated by tea pa partiers is about to moderate the most liberal candidate in the field. might we see the kind of blood letting that hasn't happened in the republican party since the goldman wipeout since '64? could that send the republican party even further to the right in 2016? and the obama party will go after romney because he is a mormon. really? where is the evidence of that? and "to kill a mockingbird" is going to be in a screening at the wh
w. >>> now to the gender gap. let's play some "hardball." >>> good morning, i'm michael smirconish sitting in for chris matthews. the gender gap is a war on women and mitt romney will lose the election if he can't close a growing gender gap. so head of the rnc who said today the gender gap exists only in media fiction and then he worked in caterpillars into the quote. this certainly didn't help with women. the dnc has only been too eager to take advantage. mitt, it...